Raising Reading Achievement Site - MIT 2019

Reflections and next steps:

It has come to that time of year where I am reflecting on what I have learnt through this MIT experience. I have had many ups and downs along with big changes throughout the year. I am on track with my reading site with still needing to add some resources sitting in my drive for my site to be fully functional. They purple level for learners reading at 8 years is good to go I am just adding resources to the gold and silver levels. 

End of year data:

I have now looked at my end of year data and can see that all of my learners have made progress this year in reading. I have placed the graphs below where I have shown reading age improvement as well as reading level improvement. The reason I have chosen to use reading level improvement is that some of the reading ages require learners to pass two test and although they may not look like they have improved in reading age they have improved a level since mid year testing.

The blue lines on the graph show end of 2018 reading ages and levels, the red lines show mid year 2019 data and the yellow lines show end of 2019 data. From this you can see that all of my learners have made some progress on paper but I think the biggest progress that I have seen is in the confidence of my learners in reading and the excitement that they have when it comes to reading now. 


The change is huge and really encouraging to see. Looking at the data closely I can see now that there are some who are now stuck at that 9 - 9.5 year range so this is something I will take into consideration and hopefully add to my site as well. 

Presentation:
The original presentation can be accessed from this blog post or can be watched in the video below. 

 
This is my presentation that I completed at the wanaga and have just recorded to show my journey. It is about 8 minutes long so below I will add time points where if you are just interested in my site you can see that, or if you are just wanting to have a look at the data you can go straight to these time points. I have also relinked my site into the post so please feel free to have a look around and let me know if you would like a copy of this to use in your own classroom.

Quick Time Links:
0:22 - 2018 Data 
1:20 - First steps 
2:46 - Screencast Example
4:17 - Mid year data
4:58 - How the site works
6:43 - Next steps and end of year data

Link to my site - MIT 2019

Reading site update:
I have only just realised that I haven't posted the link to the reading site that I have created. I have put this up now so it is visible for people to have a look at. As we have a reading site on our class page I have been trialling out some of these activities on here so I am yet to upload to this site. I am currently working on having all of these activities on the site ASAP and will definitely have this sorted once I am back from camp next week! I have also had a slight problem with uploading the voice recordings from my learners to the recorded stories section as we have been using screencastify I didn't load these properly into my imovie so will be working to fix this problem as well. Here is the link to the site.

Next steps:
Adding all of the resources from my drive to the site.
Trying to had video instructions for the activities
Please feel free to have a look around the site and use the resources in your own classrooms.